Good condition.
Signed and dated lower right; edition numbered lower left.
There is light time staining to the margins. A fingerprint mark is present to the upper margin.

Publisher: Universal Limited Art Editions, New York



While the target itself is not particularly unusual, it was Johns's act of selecting it as a means of visual expression that firmly established his reputation. The novelty of Johns's arrival on the scene and the impact it created lay precisely in his ability to produce works free from perspective, free from a focal point, and liberated from any fixed meaning.
On the subject of why he chose the target, he has said: "Things like flags and targets are things you recognize immediately when you see them, but they are not things you stop to look at closely. That was essentially what mattered. I wanted these images to remain unaltered — not trapped within the painting, but free within it.